[/b] hi guysjust thought you might like to read this kinda funny if you could hear the full story fron ken in person.
I saw the Billy Stix supprise for the Crackers meeting Wow! 12:10 PM 2/9/2004
I rode up to Gainsville yesterday morning with Bob Rodgers and his beautiful bride Sandy, to pick up her supprise birthday gift at Billy Stix's house. Billy had custom made her a Spiral Grouper Rod. The rod is awsome looking, and I know that as happy as she was, that Bob was one happy man last night. I got to see the supprise that Billy has prepared for the Crackers meeting on the 26th and it is a real beauty. Billy said that Mark (BlackRhino) is going to allow us to purchase more than one ticket per person for the raffle of prizes this time. I for one like this idea, as it helps Billy offset a little of his expenses that he incurs, and gives one, more chances at winning a prize. After leaving Billys house we went to Orlando, for the Bass Pro sale. Bob has a good friend at BP named Robbie and he wanted to take the Billy Stix rod in and show it to Robbie. The rod created a mad house. Every sales person in the fishing section gathered around to look and get a feel of that Billy Stix Rod. There was a guide trying to give a talk on how to catch inshore Reds and Trouts, but I think we had more interest (hey man I want one of those rods, hey do you have any of Billys cards, hey why don't Bass Pro carry anything that looks and feels like this) in the rod than he did in techniques of the how to's. We had only planned on being at Bass Pro for an hour or so, but ended up staying over five hours. I will never again go into a place like that with a Billy Stix rod in hand, unless I am in the mood to answer endless questions and almost insults as to why we didn't have some of Billys cards to hand out. I only had one card and Bob only had one, so we gave one to the fishing dept. manager, and the other went to a very large demanding customer. We got back to Hernando Beach kind of late and very tired or I would have posted this last night. to Billy and the work of art he is creating.
